Li Chengdong stood in the middle of the array and looked coldly at the Qing cavalry behind the fire wall.

Since yesterday evening, he and his battalion subordinates have been waiting in the reeds by the river for most of the day, for the present moment.

After receiving a detailed report from the enemy situation department buried in Liu Zhong's army, Chen Yue formulated such a plan. First, Yu Feng led his troops to attack the Green Camp soldiers who were collecting grain and arresting Ding, and then lured the Qing cavalry to such a specific place. The two rivers were sandwiched with a narrow area, and there was only a wooden bridge in front to cross.

If the wooden bridge is burned, the Qing cavalry will not be able to advance. If the rear road is blocked, the Qing cavalry will be trapped in this narrow area and there will be no way to escape. Then the navy in the river will attack with artillery rockets, so it will be fine to leave this cavalry.

Li Chengdong Camp was responsible for the important task of blocking the retreat of the Qing cavalry.

For this reason, his troops moved here by boat as early as yesterday, then dug a shallow ditch and placed a lot of dry firewood and thatched grass near the ditch. Today, after receiving the news that the Qing cavalry was indeed induced, Li Chengdong immediately sent someone to inject tinder oil into the ditch, and then the entire army quietly leaned into the reeds under the river embankment, waiting for the Qing cavalry to pass.

Sure enough, in less than a long time, I saw our cavalry battalion coming quickly, followed by thousands of Qing cavalry not far behind.

After carefully waiting for the Qing cavalry to cross the shallow ditch, Li Chengdong immediately rushed out and ignited the turbulent oil in the ditch.

The Ming soldiers carried out the horses hiding under the dike, and some soldiers carried out a large amount of dry firewood that had been prepared in advance and threw it into the flames.

In an instant, flames rose up, and the horses were placed in a formation, forming an insurmountable solid line of defense.

Looking at the Qing cavalry retreating behind the flames, Li Chengdong quickly ordered that the first battalion of three thousand soldiers form a complete array, the two rows in front were shield soldiers, and the next to the shield soldiers were musket soldiers, with a total of three rows, one hundred and fifty people. These were already all the musket soldiers in the battalion.

With Li Chengdong's order, three rows of musket gunmen fired in turn, shooting bullets with dense rain and airtightness. Three-stage shooting was a method that Prince Mu used when he was expeditioning Yunnan. Chen Yue would naturally not forget when he was training musket soldiers.

At first, the Mongolian cavalry was naturally unwilling to be trapped by this not-so-wide wall of flames. They beat the horses as if they had flew over the wall of flames, but they hit the horses heavily. The war horses screamed shrillly and were pierced by a thick spear mounted on the horses. The Mongolian cavalry on the horses had just come down from the horses and were stabbed to death by the Ming army behind the horses with a spear.

In a very short time, dozens of cavalry crossed the fire wall, but they ran into bloody sensation on the horse-rejecting formation, turning into a burning ball of fire in front of the formation.

There is a wall of flames in front, and behind the wall is a horse-resisting array and a Ming army infantry array that is ready to break through the siege. It is harder than waiting for the sky.

The bomb rain continued to shoot from the Ming army array behind the flame wall, and from time to time, cavalry or war horses were shot to the end, and the Mongolian cavalry was forced to retreat.

Without waiting for Nikan's order, the Mongolian cavalry spontaneously pulled their bows and arrows, shooting continuous rain of arrows into the Ming army's formation opposite, but were blocked by the Ming army's shield. Even if arrows crossed the shield and shot on the Ming army's body, the Ming army rows in the front were all wearing armor. Although most of them were just leather armor, there was no problem to resist the shooting of the cavalry's soft bows. As long as they were not shot at the vital point, they could continue to fight.

In the canal, the Ming army was still firing fire rockets on the ship, and the Ming cavalry in the north were also attacking the Qing army with muskets.

Nikan saw in despair that he had been trapped in three sides of the Ming army, and cavalry around him were shot and fell from time to time, and the array had become sparse.

At this time, I can only escape from the canal in the west. Nikan looked at the canal, which was more than three meters wide. If the war horses ran away at full speed, they might be able to cross it. However, there is no venue to speed up the war horses, so they can only wade through the canal and go to the other side.

I just don’t know how deep the river canal is? Will the soldiers fail to get over the top when entering. But at this time Nikan had no time to take care of this, so he could only try it.

The Mongolian cavalry pulled the war horses and walked around the river and canals. The war horses, which were so gentle in the past, were extremely disobedient at this time, and their bodies kept retreating, as if there was an abyss in front of them.

The cavalry looked to the other side of the canal in shock, and saw countless Ming soldiers suddenly appearing on the other side of the canal, with the loud "Ming" on the raised red flags waving in the wind.

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The flames were still burning, but they were much weaker. The dry firewood in some places had burned out, leaving only a trace of slight smoke.

Li Chengdong and his men crossed the flame ditch and came to the battlefield, sorting out the battlefield behind the station.

The scene was extremely tragic. In this narrow area between the two rivers, there were corpses of people and war horses, swords, guns, weapons, arrows, and lodging flags everywhere.

However, unlike the corpses between the two sides in the past, all the Qing soldiers who died in this area were killed.

Trapped in this narrow area, the Mongolian cavalry had no way forward and behind, and the only ditches that could be crossed were blocked by the Ming army. Under the fierce launch of rocket artillery on the ship, a large number of cavalry were shot and killed. In the end, some people cried and pulled their horses and tried to cross the canal and escape the siege, but were easily killed by the Ming army infantry on the other side.

Losing the advantage of war horses, the combat power of Mongolian cavalry was reduced by more than half, and even 10% of their usual combat power could not be exerted. The scimitar had no advantage in front of the spear, and the proud cavalry was not an opponent of the large number of muskets. What's more, the number of Ming troops surrounding them was several times that of theirs.

In order to encircle and annihilate the Qing cavalry, Chen Yue sent a total of 15,000 troops.

None of the three thousand Mongolian cavalry escaped, and even the leading Berrenkan was shot and killed by muskets. The Ming army paid only the casualties of dozens of soldiers, all of whom died under the feather arrows of the Mongolian cavalry. It was a great victory.

The battlefield was quickly cleaned up, and all the swords, guns, bows, arrows, and even the artillery projectiles that fell on the ground were picked up and taken away.

More than 500 war horses were seized this time, and the number of cavalry in Pingnan Army could increase a lot. What made Yu Feng, the general of the cavalry battalion, crazy was that most of the war horses were shot to death by artillery, muskets, and there were only so many that could be used without injury.

The Mongolian cavalry originally had two horses and three horses, but this time it was not a long-distance raid, so they did not bring so many horses with them. Even so, the number of war horses reached 4,000. Unfortunately, most of them died under the curtain of bullet rain.

This made Yu Feng feel extremely distressed. If all of them could be seized, he could greatly expand his cavalry.
Chapter completed!